Tea takes a great deal of its character from place. The same plant, Camellia sinensis, produces wildly different teas depending on where it grows — altitude, climate, soil, the mist that rolls through the valley at certain times of year.
This section covers the major tea-growing regions one by one. The first three guides cover Darjeeling in the Indian Himalayas, Fujian on the south-eastern coast of China, and Yunnan in the south-west, where the tea plant itself originated. More region guides will follow.